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May 16, 2009

G37: Red Sox 5, Mariners 3

Josh Beckett went much deeper in the game than expected after throwing 77 pitches through four innings. He ended up with this line: 7-4-3-3-5, 119 (one of the three runs was unearned).

Of the six Boston hits, three were home runs -- and they accounted for all of the team's runs: Jason Bay hit a two-run shot in the first, Jason Varitek went deep for two runs in the second, and Jeff Bailey led off the fifth with a solo blast.

Jacoby Ellsbury singled in the seventh to extend his hitting streak to 12 games. The other two hits were singles by Julio Lugo and Mike Lowell.

All five AL East teams won on Saturday, so Boston stays 2 GB behind Toronto and New York is still 4.5 GB.

298 comments:

Allright, Josh if you get to read this before your start...There is only one guy on this team who can beat you...He bats leadoff ,weighs 120 lbs,and slaps the ball like a highly skilled softball player. the problem is sometimes it leaves the park....So keep him down and it's a W.....

If I am going to stay up past 1 AM watching baseball -- I'll probably stay at work until the game is over, since I don't want to miss the late innings driving home -- I like to see my team win. Makes the whole endeavour feel worthwhile.

Loaded for bear, and baseball, tonight.Made it through about 8 innings last night, not even sure what damn time that put me getting to sleep. Whenever it was, it was much too late for the day before one of my typical Staurdays.Meet fellow members of grounds crew at Dukes (official diner of the WSNLL Field Crew) at 6 AM - checkWork from 7 until about 11:30 am getting fields game ready after a freaking flash flood last night - check.Spend next 5 hours going around to the fields as games finish up redragging and trying to dress up the still iffy infields. - checkCome home about 6:30 and mow my lawn - checkAfter mowing plant some Salvia and do some serious weeding in the garden until it's just too dark - checkRefill bird and critter feeders by the floodlight on the patio - checkNow if the young girls who are sleeping over with Gage will hurry up and finish in the bathroom I can get a shower and open a bottle before the first pitch - YAHOO!

Expecting a good game from Josh tonight. I think he's on the verge of a return to form.

Ha! I've been thinking of this since Allan mentioned Griffey. That year I was 13, Babe Ruth League. My friend and I were the only two hitters of the whole squad, and we were both in a slump. Our coach had the 89 UD Griffey and said the first one to get a hit out of the two of us gets the card. My friend (who never collected cards, unlike me, and who was a Yankee fan) won. :(

Welcome TGD.The 89 Griffey, one of the prettiest cards ever. Just something about that face and young smile, very engaging. And it was a nice set, but that card was definitely the best looking one, not to mention most valuable.

Jere- nice. I live in Winter Hill. I love Somerville. I also have been reading your blog for a long time sporadically. I always dug how you scored tickets in the fashion you did, and went to games solo mad early and took obscure photos.

TGD: thanks! I don't know if you're near Winter Hill Bank, but if you are, watch for the secret Kiss faces on their sign! It's one of those signs that flashes different messages, and once in a blue moon, for reasons unknown, Ace, Gene, Paul, and Peter's faces appear.

I don't know if you're near Winter Hill Bank, but if you are, watch for the secret Kiss faces on their sign! It's one of those signs that flashes different messages, and once in a blue moon, for reasons unknown, Ace, Gene, Paul, and Peter's faces appear.

It's true about the Kiss faces. I have seen it. Once, mayyybe twice. I wonder if they had some special deal, like some kind of Kiss checking account...wait, did I just say that? Anyway, I don't know how often or if it will ever come up again, but it does/did exist. Kim can vouch for me on this one. I can picture it--the faces look pretty horrible considering they're made of like 12 lightbulbs each....

Yeah, going to my nana's for every holiday in Meriden, we knew we were almost there when we "saw the cross." And supposedly when I was little, the first time I saw it, already in my "correcting people" mode, I said, "that's not a cross, it's a lower-case T."

Holyland is seriously effed up. Basically, some guy wanted to recreate Bethlehem and Jesus' journey (or something) but they stopped taking care of it, so it got all overgrown and like a horror movie. And people sell drugs there.

Highest building I've been in is the Prudential Center observatory, which isn't saying too much. It's still 700+ feet up there. Also went to the observatory of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge in Bucksport, Maine. That's 447 feet up but it was still breathtaking.

Jere the craziest part of it to me is the ear popping! You go up those elevators and it is the weirdest feeling.

This one day I was at the Prudential Center with a friend and we rode the elevator up. We didn't pay to go to the observatory but we could mingle on the 50th floor in the center. I had to use the bathroom and it was a windy day... I'm in this bathroom which looks just like any other public bathroom but the different is I can feel the building sway!

When I worked in the WTC, you could hear the building creak -- in addition to slight swaying. I could not always feel the swaying that other people did. We were on the 57th floor.

When we were in Alaska in 1996, we wer going to go up in a small plane (4 seater) and see various things and land on a glacier. I was skeptic of being able to handle it, but I figured I can't miss it, so .... And it turned out I had no problem at all. Loved it.

I don't remember that at the Falls, but I want to go back soon. We drive by (sort of) every time we go the airport in Buffalo. On the Canadian side, you can get real close to the water's edge, like you can almost put your hand in, if I recall. Very low stone wall.

I feel like Allan would be one of those cars that would be cruising right along Interstate 95 through Portsmouth, NH then slow way down going up the high-level Piscataqua River Bridge connecting NH with Maine. It never fails how people will be going 75 in a 55 through Portsmouth, then 50 in a 55 on the bridge, then back to 75 back down the bridge.

There's an observatory on top of a hill in Dover, NH - the hill is maybe 400-500 feet up and the observatory is another 50-60 feet. You have to climb stairs to get to the top and they are the kind that are just platforms connected to metal - not the kind you'd find inside of buildings... you have to climb around 15 flights of those stairs to get to the top and when you get up there you just hang over the edge.

Back in 1998 my family went to Florida... One day we drove over to Orlando and went to Disney. I recall telling my parents (I was 10 years old at the time), "I came here to have fun! Not to go on the rides."

Okay - gave up one, but got it back.Looking back on GDGD, I see GUMBY DONGED!Holy shit.And how did Branyon sit on 3rd through 2 ground balls and not score? Must have been hard hit and straight at fielders.

Allan - when Cat and I went to Alaska we did the helicopter ride out over a big mountain ridge to a glacier - I was ready to be terrified, because I am NOT a roller coaster kind of guy (apologies to Ofer) but it was so beautiful I couldn't even think about being nervous.

I trust the operator of a roller coaster as much as I trust Bernie Madoff. I stick to winning stuffed animals when I'm at carnivals. • Seems like something to say that's best suited for when Ofer isn't around.

As interesting as Ofer's line of work is, the interest level pales in comparison to how much he travels. So, Ofer, where are you tonight? Oh, I'm in Asheville. I'll be going to Washington tomorrow then Sandusky, Ohio. Hmm I want to go skydiving.

Castig: "The Marlins chose a very bad promotion tonight. Silver pom-pom night! There were strands of pom-pom all over the field! Kids were throwing strands out toward the field and with a 20 mph wind, Dan Uggla said it was not fun, it was 'brutal', with strands all over the field."

Ever check out an IMAX theatre or an Omni-theatre? I went on a school field trip to the Boston Museum of Science and saw a video in the omni-theatre which is a lot like IMAX where the screen projects all over the huge, domed room. Take a wild guess as to what we saw. Yes it was a pilot's view from an airplane flying closely around mountains - making you wonder if it would crash into the mountain and then pulling up at the last second. Frrrreaky! And you're not even going anywhere!

We took a bus in Italy once along a mountain road -- one lane wide -- where it was a sheer drop off the side, no guard rail. L could tell you the towns. Naturally, the window seat was out, but even on the aisle, I white-knuckled it the whole way. Agony for 30 minutes or so.